Summary

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SU 77 SW
17/610

READING
EASTERN AVENUE (East Side)
Nos 39 and 41 (White House chiropractic surgery)

Pair of semi-detached houses, no. 41 now surgery with flat above. 1845 (deeds) with C20 additions. Stuccoed brick, Welsh slate roof - two storeys, three bays with lower, set-back, side bays and an added lower bay to either end; rear range added 1923. Main range: narrow vertical recess divides properties; sashes with glazing bars in raised surrounds with ends of cills breaking forward on brackets; entrances at either end have internal porches with pilasters supporting entablature, narrow round-arched openings in return walls (no. 41's with Art Noveau glazing) and, inside, two steps up to door of four flush panels under overlight with glazing bars (porch of no. 39 has black and white marbled floor); hipped oversailing roof with central, brick, cross-ridge stack. Side wings have a sash on each floor, of 12 panes to ground floor and nine unequally-hung panes to first floor; roofs have hipped ends and brick stacks to rear. Additions to either side have monopitched roofs, the left one blind the right one with C20 1st floor oculus.

Interior: no.39 has panelled double-door between front and rear ground-floor rooms and open-string stair with moulding below treads, decorative newel and curtail to handrail.

Listing NGR: SU7336672781

Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 January 2026 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards

SU 77 SW
17/610

READING
EASTERN AVENUE (East Side)
Nos 39 and 41 (White House chiropractic surgery)

Pair of semi-detached houses, no. 41 now surgery with flat above. 1845 (deeds) with C20 additions. Stuccoed brick, Welsh slate roof - two storeys, three bays with lower, set-back, side bays and an added lower bay to either end; rear range added 1923. Main range: narrow vertical recess divides properties; sashes with glazing bars in raised surrounds with ends of cills breaking forward on brackets; entrances at either end have internal porches with pilasters supporting entablature, narrow round-arched openings in return walls (no. 41's with Art Noveau glazing) and, inside, two steps up to door of four flush panels under overlight with glazing bars (porch of no. 39 has black and white marbled floor); hipped oversailing roof with central, brick, cross-ridge stack. Side wings have a sash on each floor, of 12 panes to ground floor and nine unequally-hung panes to first floor; roofs have hipped ends and brick stacks to rear. Additions to either side have monopitched roofs, the left one blind the right one with C20 1st floor oculus.

Interior: no.39 has panelled double-door between front and rear ground-floor rooms and open-string stair with moulding below treads, decorative newel and curtail to handrail.

Listing NGR: SU7336672781

External Links

• Wikidata Q26540913

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)